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I have done Useful Things today:
- Found a phone plan that will cost me $20 less per month but get me higher-speed broadband.
- Lugged (with S.'s help) a dead scanner, a dead printer, a dead keyboard, and a large box full of cables, wires, mice, drives, circuit boards, and things I couldn't even identify anymore to the local Electronics Recycling event.
- Bought about $20 worth of grains, beans, and vegetables for this week's meals. I plan on trading in convenience for cost savings during my unemployment and will probably be cooking a lot of excruciatingly healthy simmer-for-an-hour vegetarian meals.
- Started a loaf of Jeffrey Steingarten's 24-hour no-knead bread.
- Started soybeans soaking for Martha Rose Shulman's wonderful vegetarian pâté de campagne. I buy Marmite wholly and solely so I can make this recipe, which I've been cooking since I was 20 and bought Martha Rose's first book. (She's a very good and strangely uncelebrated vegetarian food writer.)
- Lolled about.